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Re: Win2K and IR Tower - WinME too?
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 8 May 2001 00:01:08 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Stef Mientki writes:
> John Hansen wrote:
> > I have W2K and WinME on my PC at home. Neither of these operating systems
> > drive the green LED on my IR tower continually. At work I have W2K and
> > there, too, it does not continually drive the LED.
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> But I think you use your own serial comm driver instead of spirit.ocx?
My understanding of the IR tower issue that is being discussed here is that
simply plugging the IR tower into a serial port on a machine running W2K is
causing the LED to turn on and stay on continuously so long as the PC is
operating. I may have misunderstood the previous messages. Is it Spirit
that seems to be continually driving the LED when used on a PC running W2K?
John Hansen
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | RE: Win2K and IR Tower - WinME too?
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| (...) No, just plug the IR tower into a serial port of a PC running Win2K with nothing but the desktop showing. The green LED comes on, but I'm not sure if the IR led is energizer or not... Cheers, Ralph (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Win2K and IR Tower - WinME too?
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| I've experienced this problem both using nqc and the java serial comm classes. Both are using the microsoft serial port driver, I assume. FWIW, the machine is a Dell Dimension Laptop running Win2k. I am not certain under what circumstances the LED (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Win2K and IR Tower - WinME too?
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| (...) If the green LED is on, and data line is held low, no IR is produced by the tower, so it will not harm the LED's. (I keep my tower alive for hours and I can't see any degradation) (...) But I think you use your own serial comm driver instead (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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